Presuming that there is anyone around to remember it in 1,000 years' time, I should imagine that it will be regarded in a similar way to the wooden
horse of the siege of Troy. That is to say, it will be vaguely familiar to lots of people, mainly as a metaphor for letting your guard down, and there
will still be people arguing over whether or not it was technically possible.

It was a major impact on the U.S., not unlike the attack on Pearl Harbor, or other "trigger" events throughout the world such as the "Gulf of Tonkin"
incident, the assassination of "Archduke Franz Ferdinand", or the "Reichstag fire".

Many government agencies were formed or restructured as a result, and many of the rights U.S. citizens enjoyed were infringed upon. It was a turning
point for the country.

Certainly the attack on the World Trade Centers will be remember for hundreds of years, perhaps longer.

In a 1,000 years? I'd opine they "Would Have" but protesters in the year 2054 end up destroying the 911-Monument when it is finally 'official' 9/11
was an "Inside Job" Interestingly, it isn't just "others" ripping them down, it is everyone and it is only then, when 'Polite Society' figure out
that there are far more of "Us" then "Them"...

While these riots go on, I wonder what 'they' are sliding through the back door?

I'll go out on a limb and the same 'turf' destroyed today will be HIGH $$$$ digs when the dust settles.

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
I mean this as an honest and sincere question. There is no conspiracy implied here, I am honestly just wondering about the answer and welcome input
from others. ...

I wonder what people will think 1,000 years from now about the events of September 11, 2001, in a country which was known as the United States of
America?

I wonder if they will remember it?

I wonder if they will even care?

Will it have been eclipsed by some other Earth shaking event which overshadowed it?

Will it have mattered in the grander scheme of things?

Or will it just be relegated into a history 'book' sandwiched between atomic bombs and war, just another chapter?

I wonder...

Nobody will be able to answer this question considering we wont know where we will be in a thousand years. We may be none existance by then and
nothing more then a memory of the cosmos.

Presuming that there is anyone around to remember it in 1,000 years' time, I should imagine that it will be regarded in a similar way to the wooden
horse of the siege of Troy. That is to say, it will be vaguely familiar to lots of people, mainly as a metaphor for letting your guard down, and there
will still be people arguing over whether or not it was technically possible.

It'll have just as much importance as Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin, the Lusitania, the "yellow journalism" that sparked the Spanish-American War,
and every other pretext for our largest wars. As in, historians and history students may learn about them, but most normal citizens won't know much or
care much about them.

Think of it like this, what are the major catastrophes that led to specific Mongol military campaigns? Or specific Roman military campaigns? Or
specific British military campaigns? Or specific military campaigns in the various Crusades? From my experience, people only talk about the actual
wars, individual battles within those wars, casualties, and the results. The official reasons for going to war tend to get lost over time.

Plus 1,000 years is a long time. 1,000 years ago, the man who would become known as Chinggis Khagan/"Genghis Khan" was still 150 years away from being
born. For all we know, English may become a forgotten language by then and our recorded materials may not even be understood. Imagine 20 years worth
of data being stored on a vast collection of 8-track tapes or DATs (digital audio tapes).

A thousand years from now? America itself would probably be remembered as Atlantis is now. Legends and half forgotten stories of a powerful nation
that ruled the world and had amazing technologies before the gods struck it down. But they'll still have weird artifacts like a rusted out car frame
found buried in a concrete tomb they called a parking ramp. And a bunch of those plastic and metal shells they called Iphones.

I remember watching that movie, I was 5 then (my sister felt it important for me to see, despite the rating).

I remember when, at the beginning, they crash landed in the water. I wondered then if they had just returned to Earth many millenniums later. I
credit this movie with forming my earliest desires to study physics, and my later (college years) intense interest in theoretical physics.

Sorry, I meant it more like "1,000 years from now, people will think about Sept 11th the same way they'll think about the other events that led to our
other wars".

A while ago, I was reading about the "Scramble for Africa" pre-WWI and how some of the European empires were using the abolition of slavery as one of
the pretexts for the invasions. In retrospect, it seems ridiculous that people would believe they were "freeing" entire kingdoms by killing,
conquering, oppressing, and exploiting the people there. But the European citizens probably weren't aware of the atrocities being committed there
because their press likely only reported official accounts of events.

Many of the more current wars and their pretexts seem just as ridiculous. One of the ways the war in Afghanistan was sold to the American left wing
was the oppression of women in Afghanistan. It's a noble cause to want to help women around the world, but I failed to see how it's helping them when
we're killing their family members, destroying their neighborhoods, and seizing their land for our uses. A few decades from now, I don't think anyone
will even remember the "we need to save the Afghan women" pretext.

In fact, many people have already forgotten that, just as many people have already forgotten the similar pretext with Operation Desert Storm &
Saddam's alleged killings of Iraqi babies in hospitals (it might have been Kuwaiti babies, apparently I've also forgotten). I'm not saying the events
themselves are true or false; I'm just saying that most people seem to remember what came next much more.

ETA...you and I don't always agree, but I just wanted you to know I read every post objectively and evaluate each and every one. (contrary to what
some may believe). I thought your post was very good, and I wanted to celebrate it as such. To me, everyone has a valid opinion...I don't always
agree with all of them, but they're darn sure entitled to them, and they are welcome (at least in my world).

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